As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

